NBC News Chief Data Analyst Steve Kornacki tracks the latest ballot counting in California. NBC News Senior Reporter Jane Timm fact checks President Trump’s claim of election fraud in California.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is urging Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) to speed up California‘s vote counting process, arguing delays in reporting election results are eroding public trust in the state’s election. Several high-profile contests, including the races for governor, Los Angeles mayor, and a handful of competitive House seats, remained unresolved as of Monday […]
If there’s a ground zero for Medicaid fraud in America, Los Angeles is giving Minneapolis a run for its money. Six months after news broke of massive Medicaid theft in Minnesota’s largest city, it’s now clear that fraud is just as rampant in the California metropolis, if not worse. The Trump administration announced this month...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump doesn’t believe that Spencer Pratt really lost the Los Angeles mayoral primary. “Not possible for Spencer Pratt to have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had,” Trump said on Monday afternoon. “3rd World Nation. Rigged Elections! Now they’ll be working on great guy Steve Hilton. Won’t have ...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) asserted that the California primary election “stinks to high heaven,” echoing gripes from President Trump and other Republicans about the integrity of the state’s election system. “They are counting votes weeks after the election,” Johnson said in the Capitol on Monday. “I’m not saying it’s rigged. I’m saying it stinks to…
The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into four California public school districts for allegedly teaching students about sexual orientation and gender ideology under the guise of “LGBTQ history and social studies,” while failing to notify parents.
Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman surged past Spencer Pratt on Sunday in the race for LA mayor. The California governor's race remains undecided.
Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) claimed on Monday that people in California were dumpster diving for ballots after Republicans saw a serious setback in the Los Angeles mayor race and votes continued six days after the primary.The MAGA lawmaker made the unfounded fraud remarks during a Newsmax interview, commenting on the ongoing ballot count in California and responding to the GOP's frustration as former reality TV star and GOP candidate Los Angeles mayor candidate Spencer Pratt slipped out of the runoff race, placing third behind incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman."Some people can just dig through garbage cans, find ballots and send them in apparently forever after an election is over. It's not OK, it's got to come to an end and people need to go jail," Fine said. But the internet was quick to call Fine out for his baseless allegations."This is a new one, an extension of classic 'ballots in a dumpster' rumors, suggesting that fraudsters are dumpster diving for ballots and then using them to vote. It [is] absurd and ignores any number of structural reasons that wouldn’t work as well as a complete lack of evidence of that happening," online rumors expert Kate Starbird, professor at the University of Washington, HCDE and co-founder of the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public, wrote on Bluesky."Randy Fine claims people are literally dumpster diving for fraudulent ballots in California. Cool story, bro," journalist Aaron Rupar, who has more than 1.1 million followers, wrote on X."Randy Fine is 2,000 miles away and a camera w----," neuroscientist and technologist Dr. Joseph Santoro, who has more than 18,000 followers and helped lead the White House and Organizing for Action during the Obama administration, wrote on X.Governor Newsom Press Office, an official account for California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom with more than 704,000 followers on X, shared a circle graph teasing "no" and "no, but in yellow."Randy Fine claims people are literally dumpster diving for fraudulent ballots in California 😆cool story, bro pic.twitter.com/TLU3mgjIgn— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 8, 2026